Hey, if Southern Louisiana has one shining light in a pit of swampy hell, it's the food - and especially the CRAWDADS.

But don't go to just any NO restaurant and expect to get the good stuff, no, you need to find some savvy locals and have them take you out to one of those Redbone Cajun shacks in the bayou - the ones with dirt parking lots, tin roofs, red and white checkered tablecloths - and bibs to match.

Hey, if Southern Louisiana has one shining light in a pit of swampy hell, it's the food - and especially the CRAWDADS.

But don't go to just any NO restaurant and expect to get the good stuff, no, you need to find some savvy locals and have them take you out to one of those Redbone Cajun shacks in the bayou - the ones with dirt parking lots, tin roofs, red and white checkered tablecloths - and bibs to match.